Dr Harikrishnan Kothandan

MBBS, DNB(Anaes), DA(CMC,Vellore), MNAMS(Anaes), FANZCA, PGMCU(UniMel)

Senior Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Anaesthesiology

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About Doctor

Languages Spoken

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Publications

Clinical Interests

Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Lung Transplantation

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Anaesthesiology

Visiting Consultant

Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Anaesthesiology ＆ Perioperative Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

About Doctor

Dr Harikrishnan graduated with MBBS from The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University,Chennai,India. Dr Harikrishnan did anaesthesia residency training & obtained qualifications(diploma & masters) from Christian Medical College Hospital,Vellore & Madras Medical College, Chennai. After obtaining the above qualifications, he did his cardio-thoracic anaesthesia fellowship at southern railway HQs hospital, Perambur, Chennai.

Dr Harikrishnan moved to Australia in 2003 to pursue his further studies. For the first 2 years, he did intensive care medicine training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia(which is recognised by ICU college, Australia) & then he continued anaesthesia training at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia & obtained FANZCA(Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand college of anaesthetist) in 2008. After obtaining FANZCA, Dr Harikrishnan did cardio-thoracic anaesthesia & ECHO training at Royal Adelaide Hospital & Royal Perth Hospial. Dr Harikrishnan has recently completed his Masters in Clinical Ultrasond (UniMelbourne).

His clinical interests include cardio-thoracic anaesthesia,TEE, VADs, Heart & Lung transplant.

Languages Spoken

English

Education and Training

PGMCU (UniMelbourne) 2015
PGDCU (UniMelbourne) 2013
FANZCA 2008
Diploma in Anaesthesia 2003
Diplomate of National Board (Anaesthesia) 2001
MBBS 1994

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist,SGH.
Visiting Consultant Anaesthesiologist, NHCS.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School.
Clinical Senior lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Clinical Core Faculty Member, Sing Health Residency Program

Awards

Service with a Heart award
Outstanding Faculty award by Sing Health Residency Programme (Anaesthesiology) 2013.
Outstanding Faculty award by Sing Health Residency Programme (Anaesthesiology) 2014.
2nd best e-poster presenter award by ISACON 2014.

Publications

Difficult Intubation in a patient with Vallecular Cyst. SMJ 2013; 54(3):e62-e65 (1st author)
Original article: Anaesthesia Management for MitraClip Device Implantation: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia. January 2014 issue. (1st author)
Original article: Anaesthesia for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: A Survey of Anaesthesiologists in Restructured Hospitals in Singapore, SingHealth Proceedings, Volume 23,No 4,2014.(Last author)
Combined use of the Glide scope and flexible fibrescope as a rescue technique in a difficult airway. (last author) SingHealth proceedings June 2015 Volume 24:117-120.
Direct Aortic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Anaesthesia Attentions. (2nd author).SingHealth proceedings .March 2015.Volume 24.Number 1.2015
Fontan Physiology: Anaesthetic Implications for Non-cardiac surgery(1st author) International journal of Anesthetics & Anesthesiology.February 2015.
Review article: Anaesthesia for goitre surgery –A review. (last author) SingHealth Proceedings, August 2015.
Complex Aortic Procedure and Cerebral Protection Strategies: A Case Report and Review of Literature (2nd author) Anaesthesia cases, AAGBI, August 2015.
Review article: Anaesthetic Considerations for Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Review (1st author): Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, January 2016 issue.
Anesthetic management for intra-abdominal malignancies with cardiac involvement: A report of two cases and review of literature. Anaesthesia cases, AAGBI, January 2016.
Association between frailty, cerebral oxygenation and adverse postoperative outcomes in elderly patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery: An observational Study (last & corresponding author).Submitted to Indian Journal of Anaesthesia (accepted but requested some changes in the manuscript)
Comparison of clinical performance of Igel, Supreme, Proseal in elective surgery. Submitted to Singapore Medical Journal.

Research Interest

Interested to do prospective/retrospective studies in cardiothoracic anaesthesia.
Ongoing research activities
Retrospective study: Anaesthetic condiderations for TAVI:case series( ongoing )
Retrospective Study: Complications of Rigid Bronchoscope. Just completed data collection.
Device to countercheck Intravenous Drug Administration and Reduce Medication Errors in Anaesthesia – Grant Approved (one of the co-author). Just completed the study.
To determine changes in the endotracheal cuff pressure after insertion of TEE probe on cardiac surgery(ongoing)